Culture
Subregions
Natural Resources
Waterways
Facts with C
100
The movement of people from countryside to the cities.
What is urbanization?
100
The Andes Mountains are located in this subregion.
What is South America?
100
The country that uses alcohol made from sugarcane and gasoline to power their cars.
What is Brazil?
100
Latin America's longest river.
What is the Amazon River?
100
He led the Spanish army in 1519.
Who is Hernan Cortes?
200
The faith most Latin Americans practice today.
What is Roman Catholic?
200
The islands that make up the Greater Antilles.
What are Hispanola, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Jamaica?
200
One of the Latin American countries that mines silver.
What is Mexico or Peru?
200
Rio de la Plata means this.
What is the River of Silver?
200
He set up a communist state in Cuba.
Who is Fidel Castro?
300
The movement of people that has shaped Latin America's population.
What is migration?
300
The subregion that has frequent earthquakes and active volcanoes.
What is Middle America?
300
The world's largest exporter of copper.
What is Chile?
300
The country that Lake Maricaibo is located in.
What is Venezuela?
300
A large festival held on the last day before lent.
What is Carnival?
400
A language formed by combining parts of several other languages.
What is a pidgin language?
400
The names of the subregions.
What are Middle America, the Carribean, and South America?
400
One country in Latin America that has gold deposits.
What is Brazil, Nicaragua, or Guatemala?
400
South America's largest lake.
What is Lake Maricaibo?
400
Farm products grown for export.
What are cash crops?
500
Paintings on the walls that recall artistic traditions of the ancient Maya and Aztec.
What are murals?
500
The number of subregions in Latin America.
What is 3?
500
This country has the region's largest oil and natural gas reserves.
What is Venezuela?
500
The direction the Amazon flows for about 4000 miles.
What is East?
500
They were high ranking military officers who made it difficult for democracy to develop.
Who are caudillos?
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